SHOULD WE HAVE COMPASSION WHY OR WHY NOT?

What is compassion? This is the understanding or empathy for others. Compassion is the emotion that we feel in response to the suffering of others or what motivates a desire to help.Also we should put in mind that compassion is just more than kindness as it involves a range of capacities, The Dalai Lama defines it as sensitivity to to the suffering of others with a commitment to do something about it.

Well  according to me I think that we should have compassion in our life. Why is this? This is because I feel that the main benefit of compassion is to help you be more happy and bring others around you to be more happy. And if happiness is what most of us strive for then compassion goes a long way in helping us achieve that goal. Life is hard as it is and  we need compassion to be able to cope with challenges that we face each and every day.
 
Compassion helps us feel like someone out there really cares and when we share our emotions with someone we really expect them to empathize with us. This usually has a calming effect since when our friends listen to us and try and validate our feelings then we feel like they are doing what they can do to help. There are instances where we should show self compassion so that we give ourselves room to feel the pain of our emotions which we may need to confront so that we can loosen  up a little bit. It may be painful but once we accept what it is that is going on we have better control of what our direction in life is.

We should all strive to cultivate a compassionate world as much as it is hard since we are all driven by greed and selfishness where everyone is just concerned about themselves and nothing else. This could be understandable since their is so much going on and there is so much we can do but really a little compassion would go a long way. A study was done by development psychologist (the compassionate instinct - Dacher Keltner)
who compared two parenting styles and saw that parents who rely on induction engage their kids in reasoning when they are on the wrong and this prompts their kids to think about the consequences of their actions and how those actions might harm others and then there were those parents who just asserted their power and declared what is wrong or right and resorted to physical or emotional punishment . This comparison came with a conclusion that those that used induction with their kids their kids are better adjusted and likely to help their peers and this is because this style of parenting cultivated compassion in them and they are more likely to have an appreciation for each others suffering and care just a little bit more.

In conclusion i feel like if we all cared just a little bit about how each other felt and not just be selfish in our ideals then the world would be a more better place to live in since we would not do to others what we don't want done to us and in this way better relationships would be cultivated and we would be able to better live with each other even better.